by Sarah Mace
The Jockey Club’s annual report of the number of state / province-sired live foals of 2013, based on statistics compiled through Sept. 9, 2013, showed that New York experienced a 36.2% increase this year.
As of Sept. 9, 2013, 917 live foals were reported to The Jockey Club on Live Foal Reports, compared to 713 at this time last year. This data not a count of the live foals born in each state or province (i.e. a count of the 2013 New York-bred foal crop) but a count of live foals by conception area, regardless of where the foals were born (i.e. a count of the 2013 New York-sired foal crop).
According to the 2012 Annual Report of the New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund, the number of registered New York Stallions stayed constant from 2011 to 2012 at 64. The same report shows that over the last five years the percentage of New York-bred foals by non-New York-based stallions has ranged between 40% and 46%.
Among the 10 states and provinces in which stallions covered at least 1,000 mares in 2012, only Florida and New York stallions produced more live foals in 2013 than in 2012 as reported at this time last year. The increase in Florida was 6.6%.
With the number of live foals reported so far approximately 90 percent complete, the overall reporting of live foals of 2013 is down 2.2 percent from last year at this time. Ultimately, the 2013 registered foal crop is projected to reach 23,000. The number of stallions declined 8.7 percent from the 2,620 reported for 2011 at this time last year, while the number of mares bred decreased 4.8 percent from the 39,838 reported for 2011.
The 2012 breeding statistics are available alphabetically by stallion name through the Publications and Resources link on The Jockey Club homepage at jockeyclub.com.
Foals reported to The Jockey Club on Live Foal Reports through Sept. 9, 2013:
| 2012 Mares Bred | 2012 Live Foals | 2013 Live Foals | Percent Change | |
| Kentucky | 15,569 | 10,960 | 10,726 | -2.1% |
| Florida | 3,187 | 1,642 | 1,751 | 6.6% |
| California | 2,475 | 1,600 | 1,582 | -1.1% |
| Louisiana | 2,306 | 1,344 | 1,172 | -12.8% |
| New York | 1,664 | 713 | 971 | 36.2% |
| Ontario | 1,350 | 700 | 684 | -2.3% |
| Pennsylvania | 1,124 | 628 | 608 | -3.2% |
| New Mexico | 1,127 | 585 | 503 | -14.0% |
| Oklahoma | 1,124 | 509 | 470 | -7.7% |
| Texas | 1,014 | 444 | 417 | -6.1% |
